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Publication details [#56714]

Bérubé, Daniel and Stefka H. Marinova-Todd. 2012. The development of language and reading skills in the second and third languages of multilingual children in French Immersion. The International Journal of Multilingualism 9 (3) : 272–293.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L3-acquisition | language transfer | multilingualism | reading comprehension | second language acquisition

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study argues that the literacy of multilingual children in French Immersion in an alphabetic first language (L1), and their second language (L2) and third language (L3) proficiency, facilitate their L2 and L3 reading comprehension.